Tag: CHRIS PRINGLE

On Mid-Day Mobile 106.5 FM Mobile, Speaker Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) openly questions the legal strategy and skills of the former attorney for the state Edmund “Eddie” LaCour.

Speaker Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) won reelection to House District 101 in a landslide with 86% of the vote.

Friday was a highly emotional and tense day in the Alabama House of Representatives, after lawmakers passed legislation allowing the use of currently court-barred maps in a special election if courts remove the injunctions.

After lawmakers advanced two pieces of legislation that would compel a special election in specific congressional and State Senate districts, all eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court to see if the state wasted time and money in this recent special session.

A provision in both special session redistricting plans would eliminate the runoff requirement for the special elections that would follow, allowing a winner-take-all primary.

The Alabama House of Representatives was especially testy on Wednesday morning as lawmakers voted to invoke cloture during deliberations on a bill that would allow the state to utilize district maps it is currently federally enjoined from using.

Members of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee approved legislation introduced during the specially called legislative session on Tuesday that would require the state to hold a special election using a 2023 congressional map currently blocked by a federal court.

It’s unlikely that Alabama will be able to redraw its congressional map within the decade like other states, according to House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

“Pro Tem Pringle has been tremendous. From a government efficiency standpoint, I don’t think anyone has fought harder than him," Ledbetter told 1819 News in a written statement. 

With little time to spare, the Alabama Senate passed House Bill 220 (HB220) sponsored by House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) and Speaker Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) that provides the governor, lieutenant governor, the speaker of the House, the president pro-tempore of the Senate, and minority leaders in the House and Senate with the authority to remove and replace any member of a board, authority, or commission that they appoint. 

Former ethics commissioner and Limestone County Probate Court Judge Stan McDonald is defending the legacy of Guy Hunt after State House Pro Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) had some harsh words for the former Alabama governor last week, explaining why he opposed closed primaries.

Could U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) lose his seat to a Democrat?

The Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee took up and passed Speaker Pro-Tem Chris Pringle's (R-Mobile) bill authorizing appointees to remove and replace their appointments to boards and commissions.

The Alabama House passed legislation on Tuesday sponsored by House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) and Speaker Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) that provides the governor, the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate with the authority to remove and replace board and commission members that they appoint. 

The bill defines a board as “any board, authority, or commission comprised of individual members, of which some or all members are appointed, as established under state law.” Members of those boards would serve “at the pleasure” of the governor, House speaker and Senate pro-tem.

House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) has qualified for reelection. Citing his record as one of the most conservative members of the Alabama legislature, “My goal is and has always been to offer conservative leadership that delivers real wins for Alabama.”

House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) filed legislation on Thursday that would limit the use of boards and agencies' use of emergency rules. 

House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) says the project further proves that the role of director of the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) should be removed from the governor's cabinet and placed under an independent commission. 

A May ruling by a federal three-judge panel finding the congressional redistricting map passed by Alabama Republican lawmakers in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act will haunt Alabama “for generations,” according to State Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

The next governor of Alabama is "going to shut down" the ongoing U.S. Highway 43-State Highway 69 West Alabama Corridor expansion project, according to House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

Members of the Legislative Council approved an amended rule cracking down on dog deer hunters who allow dogs to roam on private property outside of the Talladega National Forest on Thursday.

The Alabama Board of Pharmacy is “universally disliked” by its licensees, according to House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile). 

Alabama will keep its current congressional map for the remainder of the decade unless the state gets a favorable ruling on a forthcoming appeal, according to a filing by Reapportionment Committee Chairs State Sen. Steve Livingston (R-Scottsboro) and State Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

Alabama could lose one of its seven seats in Congress after the 2030 Census, according to State Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

A recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to hear arguments on a redistricting case from Louisiana will likely “clarify” a lot of similar questions in Alabama, according to House Pro Tempore Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is forcing the state to do something it’s “not really supposed to do” by forcing the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) to provide septic and wastewater infrastructure in Lowndes County, according to House Pro Tempore Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

Violence between inmates remains a major problem in Alabama Department of Corrections prisons across the state.